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Posted on 06/20/2026 8:16:50 AM PDT by thegagline
The Trump administration is working with Qatar on a mechanism that would let Iran tap roughly $6 billion in frozen oil revenue to buy food, medicine, and other humanitarian goods, an early financial sweetener under the 14-point memorandum of understanding signed Wednesday with Tehran, people familiar with the talks said.
The plan, which is still unfinished and requires Iranian sign-off, would route purchases through Iran's central bank and could serve as a template for unlocking a slice of the roughly $100 billion in Iranian assets around the world.
The arrangement, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, would draw down a pool of money that Iran has long demanded be returned. Tehran is seeking at least $24 billion in initial releases, and Iran's state-affiliated Tasnim News Agency has reported the regime expects $12 billion to flow during the 60-day interim window, with disbursements tied to progress in talks.
Under the MOU, the United States committed to making Iran's frozen assets "fully available for use" and to negotiating a process for doing so. *** The push to release funds to Tehran is colliding with a deal that is already fraying.
Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who succeeded his assassinated father in March, posted in a thread on X Thursday that President Trump had pursued the agreement "out of desperation," saying he approved it only on assurances from Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. Trump fired back Friday on Truth Social: "We didn't meet out of desperation, Iran did. They are FINISHED! We'll play out the 60 days. They get no money, not ten cents!"***
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I can only hope this is Trump giving some hope to the Iranian citizens, only to tell them he can’t do it because of the current Iranian leaders.
“buy food, medicine, and other humanitarian goods”
Yep. And it’s snowing and -20 in Tehran as we speak. Purgatory is freezing over.
Attempts to bribe or appease aggressive dictatorships have never worked. Never. Okay, yes — they work. Just as long as it takes the crazies to cash the cheques. Obama (or whatever his real name was) took care of that by delivering cash US dollars by jet plane.
All this bs is embarrassing as well as a dangerous delay. It’s also losing GOP the midterms.
NOTHING until they show they can be TRUSTED
“”Report: Qatar, US Eye $6 Billion Iran Release as Talks Stall””
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So, is “talks stall” a nice way of saying the MOU is dead, FUBARed, and as I said previously... had an ice cube’s chance in hell of lasting or succeeding?
The GOP will lose the midterms under the current agreement guidelines. Even if things start working out, the current Iranian leaders will disrupt the peace process a month or two before the elections, causing many to stay home from voting. And it won’t be the leftist nutjobs who will be staying home. They are itching to vote and repeat 2018.
What the world needs to remember is that up to 50% of humanitarian aid to Palestine is actually funneled to Hamas terrorists.
Does anyone think for a second that billions of dollars sent to Iran will all go for food, medicine, and other humanitarian goods and not rearming for terrorism?
Regime Change, folks. Regime Change. It’s the first priority.
22 U.S. Code § 8724 - Continuation in effect of sanctions with respect to the Government of Iran, the Central Bank of Iran, and sanctions evaders
(a)Sanctions relating to blocking of property of the Government of Iran and Iranian financial institutions
United States sanctions with respect to Iran provided for in Executive Order No. 13599 (77 Fed. Reg. 6659), as in effect on the day before August 10, 2012, shall remain in effect until the date that is 90 days after the date on which the President submits to the appropriate congressional committees the certification described in subsection (d).
(b)Sanctions relating to foreign sanctions evaders
United States sanctions with respect to Iran provided for in Executive Order No. 13608 (77 Fed. Reg. 26409), as in effect on the day before August 10, 2012, shall remain in effect until the date that is 30 days after the date on which the President submits to the appropriate congressional committees the certification described in section 401(a) of the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010 (22 U.S.C. 8551(a)).
(c)Continuation of sanctions with respect to the Central Bank of Iran
In addition to the sanctions referred to in subsection (a), the President shall continue to apply to the Central Bank of Iran sanctions pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), including blocking of property and restrictions or prohibitions on financial transactions and the exportation of property, until the date that is 90 days after the date on which the President submits to Congress the certification described in subsection (d).
(d)Certification described
(1)In general
The certification described in this subsection is the certification of the President to Congress that the Central Bank of Iran is not—
(A)providing financial services in support of, or otherwise facilitating, the ability of Iran to—
(i)acquire or develop chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons, or related technologies;
(ii)construct, equip, operate, or maintain nuclear facilities that could aid Iran’s effort to acquire a nuclear capability; or
(iii)acquire or develop ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, or destabilizing types and amounts of conventional weapons; or
(B)facilitating transactions or providing financial services for—
(i)Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps; or
(ii)financial institutions the property or interests in property of which are blocked pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) in connection with—
(I)Iran’s proliferation of weapons of mass destruction or delivery systems for weapons of mass destruction; or
(II)Iran’s support for international terrorism.
(2)Submission to Congress
(A)In general
The President shall submit the certification described in paragraph (1) to the appropriate congressional committees in writing and shall include a justification for the certification.
(B)Form of certification
The certification described in paragraph (1) shall be submitted in unclassified form but may contain a classified annex.
(e)Rule of construction
Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the authority of the President pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) or the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010 (22 U.S.C. 8501 et seq.).
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/22/8724
The Qataris can do what they think best.
If the Iranians need cash, they can sell oil and have the cash placed in a Chinese bank once the tanker sails out of the Gulf of Hormuz.
“Attempts to bribe or appease aggressive dictatorships have never worked. Never.
All this bs is embarrassing as well as a dangerous delay.”
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I was going to say much the same thing until I saw your post. We suffer from the western notion that other countries can be bribed to see things our way. We never understand the reality that their perspective, priorities, and goals are so different from ours. In many cases irreconcilably so.
The Iranians can probably buy things using a bank account in Qatar.
Such an account can be monitored.
Not ten cents of AMERICAN TAXPAYER MONEY.”
Give the entire statement or you’re lying.
I’ll believe these murdering muzzie ba$tard$ are following the program when I see it. I don’t like any of this crap. I think Trump let gas prices get in the way. The “it’ll only take 3 to 6 weeks” to get this done and over with didn’t work. We are months on now, and he made a huge mistake by not allowing the Navy and Israel to finish their bombing campaign. Bad mistake in my humble opinion.
Yes. As soon as we lift sanctions and allow China to ship oil out - neither of which they can do right now.
But they eventually will be able to do exactly what you suggest *if* they meet the other obligations in this MoU and the final agreement they should be working on right now. And if all of that happens, then China will have to buy it openly on the market at market values instead of illicitly as they did before, because of the sanctions, at dramatically reduced cost to China.
So, that’s a good thing, right?
They’re not right now. That’s clear. And therefore they aren’t getting to sell oil and they aren’t getting even the first $6B of *their* money.
And if they never “follow the program” they never get any of that. That’s what the MoU says.
So, what is the problem?
And this time, the billions will not be on pallets!
Take that, Iran!
No pallets of cash for you!
Just a boring electronic transfer.
That’s what the MoU says.
When we go off that plan, let me know.
“Even if things start working out, the current Iranian leaders will disrupt the peace process a month or two before the elections”
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Precisely right! There are lots of moving parts underlying this deal and the crafty and duplicitous Iranians will find ways to avoid making any meaningful concessions. Every week there will be a new set of objections. They are playing their usual game of delay, dissemble and distract. And it will likely get worse as the mid-terms approach.
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